montanamike
02-21-2016, 09:37 PM
Today I loaded up a few of the 200gr hp cast with 20-1 at 1.205 with 5gr of bullseye. They were fairly accurate and going an average of around 835fps. Next I decided to shoot them into some wet newspaper. I had to stack 2 buckets on top of one another to catch them. They had 14-16 inches of penetration and opened very little (I don't think the paper was wet enough) so I went home and loaded a few with 7.5gr of power pistol (just for fun, they weren't very accurate) put some more water in with the newspaper and went back to the range. I was pretty impressed with the results, as you'll see below. They retained 100% of their weight as well. I will take the bullseye rounds back with wetter paper and try again but for now here are the results from the power pistol. I think i'm going to try some unique too to see which is the most accurate with enough velocity to fully expand. If you have any data with these boolits please let me know either on here or in a pm.
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_143918.jpeg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_143358.jpeg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_144227.jpg
Here are the recovered boolits from the power pistol loads. I don't think they all opened up because the extra water I added hadn't fully saturated all of the newspaper.
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_143505.jpg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_143918.jpeg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_143358.jpeg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_144227.jpg
Here are the recovered boolits from the power pistol loads. I don't think they all opened up because the extra water I added hadn't fully saturated all of the newspaper.
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n617/mtmike/Mobile%20Uploads/20160221_143505.jpg